confinium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfīnis (“bordering on, adjoining”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

cōnfīnium n (genitive cōnfīniī or cōnfīnī); second declension

1. confine
2. border
3. limit

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfīnium	cōnfīnia
Genitive	cōnfīniī cōnfīnī1	cōnfīniōrum
Dative	cōnfīniō	cōnfīniīs
Accusative	cōnfīnium	cōnfīnia
Ablative	cōnfīniō	cōnfīniīs
Vocative	cōnfīnium	cōnfīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• cōnfīnius

Descendants

• → Welsh: cyffin

References

• “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• confinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.